forty years ago this afternoon, Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Canaveral to deliver Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon. the video below breaks down the ignition sequence in minute detail, and if you’re at your computer at 1:26pm you can watch the launch ‘live’ as seen on TV back in 1969. the anniversary celebrations reach a peak this weekend, with a lecture at the Royal Aeronautical Society, the BFI’s ongoing One Giant Leap Season and a special performance of Brian Eno’s ‘Apollo’ at the Science Museum. as well as the actual moonwalk anniversary, Monday sees the release of Moonfire, a massive new Taschen book with pictures that even space nerds like us haven’t seen
__early spacesuit prototype, from Moonfire © Taschen
No comments
The comments are closed.